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Review

Golda – a smokey, talky historical biopic

by David Jenkins

Helen Mir­ren dons heavy pros­thet­ics as one-time Israeli prime min­is­ter Gol­da Mair in this drab geopo­lit­i­cal retelling of the 1973 Yom Kip­pur War.

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Review

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

by David Jenkins

It’s a case of mas­sive­ly dimin­ish­ing returns for Zachary Levi’s snap-talk­ing teen super­hero in this sequel which strug­gles to locate a rai­son d’être.

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Review

The Duke

by David Jenkins

Roger Michell’s swan­song is a fit­ting­ly whole­some and heart­warm­ing caper, an ode to Ealingesque whim­sy and charm.

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Review

The Leisure Seeker

by Eve Jones

This gen­tle road com­e­dy star­ring Helen Mir­ren and Don­ald Suther­land depicts an age­ing cou­ple at the end of the trail.

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Review

Collateral Beauty

by Elena Lazic

The man once self-described as Mr Box Office heads up yet anoth­er slushy, con­trived dud.

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Review

Eye in the Sky

by Clarisse Loughrey

Alan Rickman’s final screen out­ing is a text­book exer­cise in bring­ing mod­ern war­fare to the big screen.

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Review

Trumbo

by Emma Simmonds

Bryan Cranston charms his way through this breezy biopic cen­tred around the Hol­ly­wood Black­list scandal.

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Review

The Long Good Friday (1980)

by David Jenkins

This Thatch­er-era gang­land clas­sic returns to the screens via a new­ly restored print.

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Review

Hitchcock

by Glenn Heath Jr

The Mas­ter of Sus­pense gets his very own glib and psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly-stilt­ed Wiki-biopic.

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Review

Brighton Rock

by Adam Woodward

Rowan Joffe deliv­ers a stale and soapy rehash when he should have dared to dream bigger.

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